This is quite untrue and more indicative of your own misunderstanding of how Perl deals with strings

Actually, the OP was correct. split does return strings, and he does need to force them into numbers before using & on them. 

my $i = my $x = (split(/\./, '205.0.0.0'))[0];
my $j = my $y = (split(/\./, '123.0.0.0'))[0];

my $ij = $i & $j;
$x += 0;
$y += 0;
my $xy = $x & $y;

print("$i & $j = $ij\n");  # 205 & 123 = 001
print("$x & $y = $xy\n");  # 205 & 123 = 73

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Your example shows that +, expecting a number, will convert the string to a number, but the OP is using & which is acts differently for strings and numbers.

The OP was wrong in calling it a bug, though.

In reply to Re^2: Subnet Overlap by ikegami
in thread Subnet Overlap by bfarley

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